Assessing the Methods of Conservation for Cultural Heritage Values in Cairo: Lessons Learnt or Adoption from the Case Studies

Scholarly studies have illustrated that the interaction between cities’ history and their architecture positively affects the creation of a distinctive architectural style through its cultural heritage. Hence, it is essential to implement accurate conservation methods for cultural heritage in order to raise cities’ value. The conservation process of heritage needs to create an oriented evaluation module that can serve as a guide for decision-makers and conservation professionals. Therefore, this study tries to identify the significant preservation methods to design a module that evaluates modern techniques to preserve cultural heritage. To achieve the study objective, the descriptive-analytical approach has been used to examine the conservation process by the comparative analysis between an international case Palazzo D’Accursio in Italy, and a national one, the Technology Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development Center (TIEC) in Cairo. Then, the study involved the application of a strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) analysis in conjunction with a social, technological, economic, environmental, and political (STEEP) analysis to organize the different impacts generated by the adaptive reuse case studies in order to reach the findings of this study which extract the scientific framework in an exact and sequential order, which will be followed by the assessment and then the final report to be adopted in conservation in the future.